Suzanne Smalley reports:
The Treasury Department has agreed to temporarily block all but two members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team from accessing sensitive payment records and to limit their access to “read-only,” according to a Wednesday court filing.
The DOGE workers allowed to continue accessing Treasury’s payment systems are Tom Krause and his employee Marko Elez, the court filing says. The order is the latest development in a lawsuit union groups filed against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday.
The agreement comes amid an uproar over how DOGE — which is run by billionaire Elon Musk — has penetrated federal agencies and reportedly accessed or sought access to systems at the Departments of Labor and Education, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Agency for International Development, among other agencies.
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